Peary Chand Mitra

Peary Chand Mitra, born in Calcutta in 1814, the son of a broker in the service of European merchants, entered the Hindu College in 1827 and belonged to the circle of Henry Derozio's pupils who came to be called Young Bengal. In 1836 he joined the Calcutta Public Library as an assistant, became its secretary and then its librarian, and remained there until his retirement. A justice of the peace and a member of the Bengal legislative council from 1868 to 1870, he sat on the university senate, took an interest in agronomy and caused a scandal by attacking the Permanent Settlement. He joined the Theosophical Society in 1881 and died in Calcutta in 1883.

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